We demonstrate the direct print of micron-scale dots consisting of close-packed gold nanoparticles by employing the optical vortex laser-induced forward transfer technology. Moreover, SAM enhances the close-packing of gold nanoparticles in the printed dot.
Spectroscopic polarization measurement and control using channeled spectrum has several unique features and
is useful for various spectroscopic instruments. It utilizes the strong dispersion characteristics in polarization
retardation of high-order retarders so that the polarization modulation can be made without using mechanical
or active elements for polarization modulation. In this presentation, we describe its principle, basic features, and
several applications including a spectroscopic ellipsometer and ultrafast rotations of beam profile and polarization.
We investigate the structures on a silicon (111) substrate produced by illumination of optical vortex. The fabricated structures on silicon (111) exhibit polycrystalline properties associated with rather complicated 7×7 constructed surface.
We demonstrated that ultrafast azimuth rotation of linearly polarized beam by use of a chirped optical pulse pair, and the rotational frequency of sub-THz was realized.
Subsequently to the previous generation of ultrashort and ultra-broadband optical-vortex (OV) pulses (pulse energy: several tens of μJ) in few-cycle regime, we performed the generation of axisymmetrically polarized pulses with spatial complex amplitude modulation, which is suitable for a broadband spectrum. The generation system employs the combination of spatial light modulators in the 4-f configuration and a space variant wave plate as a common path interferometer. The spatial light modulators in the 4-f configuration offer the spatial dispersion compensation with respect to wavelength; in addition, the common path interferometer provides the stability to perturbation. We experimentally demonstrated the generation of various axisymmetrically polarized pulses by applying modulations of fundamental and higher-order Laguerre-Gauss modes with high purity. The experimental results show that we are able to generate arbitral axisymmetrically polarized pulses with spatial complex amplitude modulation.
Single angular momentum (OAM) mode emissions from a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) were
demonstrated by an external optical feedback using computer generated holograms, which are optimized on the OAM
modal gain of the free-running VCSEL. Side-mode suppression ratio of more than 23 dB was achieved for the OAM
modes with l = ±1.
We reported on a plasmonic metal Au nano-needle by nanosecond optical vortex pulse illumination. The Au nano-needle
with a tip-diameter of <100 nm was structured by illumination of a single vortex pulse.
We reported on crystalline silicon structures formed on a silicon (111) substrate through picosecond optical vortex pulse illumination. A crystalline silicon needle with a height of 20 µm was structured through single vortex pulse illumination. Sixteen overlaid vortex pulses shaped the silicon into a crystalline pillar with a height of ~45 µm.
A new method for the ultrafast rotation of ring-shaped optical lattices based on frequency-chirping of optical pulses
was demonstrated in THz regime, which is three orders of magnitude faster than those by the conventional methods. Our
optical lattice generator with a spatial light modulator is robust thanks to the 4-f configuration and enables us to flexibly
control their rotational symmetry. The generated ultrafast-rotating ring-shaped optical lattices with a rotational frequency
of 0.59 THz were successfully boosted from 5 μJ up to 125 μJ by using a home-built 4-pass Ti:sapphire amplifier without
any limitation by optical damage to the spatial light modulator.
Subsequently to the previous generation of ultrashort and ultra-broadband optical-vortex (OV) pulses (pulse energy: several tens of μJ) in few-cycle regime, we demonstrate high-power OV pulse generation with topological charge flexibility by employing a 4-f OV converter and pre- and main-amplifications. Our configuration overcomes the low-throughput drawback of the vortex converter, simultaneously compensating for the angular dispersion. It also gives flexibility of OAMor topological-charge control. Thus, we succeed in generation of mJ-class ultra-broadband OV pulses (∼790-∼820 nm) with a programmably-controlled topological charge. Moreover, we experimentally exhibit a high-precision method for measuring frequency-resolved OAM spectrum of femtosecond ultra-broadband OV pulses on the basis of electric-field reconstruction in the spatial domain. In addition, we present the generation of ultrashort pulses with axially-symmetric polarization by coherent beam combining of OVs.
We previously developed an achromatic method for the generation of the white-light optical and polarization
vortices using axially-symmetric polarizer (ASP). In the present presentation, we report the experimental study
on the Fresnel diffraction characteristics of the vortices generated by ASP. The diffraction pattern of the optical
vortex has a dark core whose diameter is not scaled by the beam diameter. This behavior is described by
the numerical simulation for a point-like vortex at ASP. We also studied the polarization change of a radially
polarized light from ASP owing to the diffraction. This change can be explained by the decomposition of the
radially polarized light into a plane wave and a point-like optical vortex which are respectively circularly-polarized
with opposite handedness.
Channel waveguides were fabricated using a nonlinear optical organic material (-)2-(a-methylbenzylamino)-
5-nitropyridine (MBANP) with the objective of application to the frequency doubling of laser
diode light. Blue light was obtained by second-harmonic generation in the form of Cerenkov radiation
using a laser diode source oscillating at A = 870 nm.
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